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Absence and Hours Pattern Study
Sick days, unpaid leave, overtime, and public-holiday spikes drawn against rosters and units — useful before a staffing argument, not as a morale score.
Operations leads often feel an absence problem before HR can name it. This study takes leave records, overtime, and — when they exist — roster files, and draws the year so a spike after a public holiday or a quiet Friday pattern is visible by unit.
Georgia’s holiday calendar matters here. A January that looks “high absence” may be Orthodox Christmas and New Year sitting on top of each other; a May that looks calm may hide overtime in a plant that ran through weekends. We mark the calendar on the page rather than leaving you to remember it.
Included: sickness and unpaid leave rates by unit and month; overtime hours beside headcount; a simple view of people with repeated short absences versus a few long ones. Excluded: medical diagnosis, individual case management, and any recommendation to discipline a named person.
Rosters are optional. If you have none, we will still chart leave, but we will not pretend we know who was supposed to be on shift. Site visits in Tbilisi or elsewhere in Georgia help when unit names in the file do not match the names people use on the floor.
From 3,200 GEL for one site and one year’s leave file. Multi-site retailers and manufacturers are quoted after we see whether the leave codes match.